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SHORT CROPS!
Consequently Money Is Scarce ancl Everybody is
Looking out for the Best Bargains. V •!•*
North Georgia Ctieap Furniture House to the Rescue!
TWO MONTHS AGO EVERYBODY FELT ASSURED THAT THERE
. I woujd be an immense cotton crop gathered this Fall, and consequently all the
**l merchants Jaiu-'il stocks—-“one of whom we are which.”.
Now, to secure as mucn otThe limited afloat, the NORTH GEORGIA
CHEAP FURNITURE HOUSE has markecTdpwn all its. goods to prices that
absolutely guarantees their sale. v
BARGAINS IN FGRNITGRC.
As kind Providence has rained out our bright cotton prospects, so the NORTH
GEORGIA CHEAP FURNITURE HOUSE has prepared to rain down Bar v
gains in Furniture for the disappointed people.
As to the quality of our goods, why our reputation is made in that respect, and
the people have long ago deserted the foreign markets and now patronize the
North Georgia Cheap Furniture House—having come to the conclusion that it was
only a delusive idea that fine goods could not be had at home.
UNDERTAKING DEPHRT7VTENT.
As usual our Undertaking Department is filled with a fine and well-selected
Stock of Caskets, Coffins, Burial Robes, Etc. All orders in this line will be given
prompt and careful attention. E. L. PEACOCK,
Proprietor North Georgia Cheap Furniture House.
THe
Hovarb bark
0F ©ARTERSVILLE.
Buys and sells Exchange, available in all parts of tho world.
Receives Deposits subject to check.
Issues OertiflestAs cf Deposit, payable or. demand, or at m Speouiou Lime, on
which interest is allowed.
This Bank having beer tried in the crucible and having proven its claim upon
the confidence of the public, solicits its patronage and promises a faithful dis
charge of its duties to its customers.
Desirable accounts solicited and all usual accommodations extended.
aug22-ly W. H. HOWARD, Sole Owner.
J. R. WIKLE, President. J. H. VIVION, Cashier.
Directors : J. R. Wikle, J. C. Wofford, J. H. Vivion, E. S. Mumford,
W. C. Baker, Hiram Blaisuell, J. A. Stover.
• THE •
First national bank
OF GARTERSVILLE.
CARTEP.SVILI.E, G a., May Ist, 1889.
This bank is now ready for transacting any legitimate
Banking business upon the most liberal terms and principles consistent with
absolute safety and protection to the interests of the Bank and its customers.
We, therefore tender our services to the public and solicit patronage upon the
foregoing sound basis, and will endeavor to make our business relations pleasant
and satisfactory to all dealers and our institution a real benefit to this eitv and
the surrounding country. Respectfully,
D °A 4 - tf J. H. VIVION, Cashier.
Emerson Malleable Iron Company,
EMERSON, BARTOW CO., GA.
The Only Malleable Iron
Works in the South.
The extensive works of the company have been com
,pleted, and they are now ready for business.
Gray and Malleable Castings Made to Order.
Machine Work and Jobbing of all kinds done prompt
ly, cheaply and as well as any other shop in the country.
Estimates given on any kind of work, on application
Address,
Emerson Malleable Iron Cos.,
EMERSON, CA.
Gerald Griffin.
• FIRE INSURANCE AGENCY.*
Represents Leading Companies.
july 19-ly
Cartersville Planing Mill,
IUALLOWAY A FREEMAN OLD MILE.)
Cor. Leaked Skinner Sts., CARTERSVILLE. GA.
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Lumber, Shingles, Flooring. Ceiling, Siding.
FULL STOCK KEPT CONgTAXTLY OX HAND
Moulding and Turned Work of all tke Latest Designs.
- ma T hine 9 - a nd umple facili
the patronage of the public. P ‘ mpt atteßtlon t 0 l his class ol -work, and solicit
omefrfljh MILNER & MILNER, Proprietors.
PROFESSIONAL CARDS.
J. M. Neel,
Attorney-at-Law.
Special attention given to
litigation in real estate, in the ad
ministration of estates of deceased per
sons, and in cases in equity.
Office : On Public Square, north
St. James Hotel. feb24-ly
Douglas Wikle.
Attorney-at-Law.
Practices in all the courts
ol tho Cherokeo Circuit. Special
attention given to tho collection of
11 lain is and tho abstracting of titles.
K 9" Office : In the Court House.
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J. H. Mayfield,
PHYSICIAN AND SURGEON.
Chronic Diseases a Specialty.
OFFICE east side Public Square. ( aT
tersville, Ga. :iug22-tim
The Booz Hotel,
CEDARTOWN, GEORGIA.
Hecently enlarged, AMPLE
' accommodations for the traveling
public. novli-tf
Public Hauling.
EGBERT MOODY.
Prepared to do all kinds
o! Hauling—cafleftulv> safbly and
guaranteed satisfaction. Moving piano,
heavy saiVs, et£., according to
weight \ baggage, Ifhb fknm 15*v, gtiaho,
lk*<*. household fwnitiuv, 2fiv. (.’all for
Egbert Moodyv junol-1 y
* GoAb!#
Call on us for good coal.
Full weights reasonable
prices.
Aubrey & McEwen,
AGENTS FOR
CLEN MARY AND LEHIGH COAL.
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Real Estate!
ALEX M. W'LLINGHAM.
PARTIES HAVIXG REAL ESTATE
of any character for sale can do no
better than by placing it in my hands. I
will pay strict attention to
FARMING LANDS,
CITY PROPERTY,
MINERAL PROPERTY.
All property placed in my hands will
be ADVERTISED FREE OF COST to Offl r,
and every effort made to bring about a
sale.
ALEX M. WILLINGHAM
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SUNSET.
Slowly on all attainment or defeat
The day dtes out far in the darkettihg West;
Leaving the earth, its golden stage complete,
To muse on hour Sway, then sink to rest;
Dark earth—’ the heavens yet touched with
sunset glow;
Brightness above, and hushed, submissive
calm below.
Hushed is the world of toil. In every place
A wealth of healing silentness doth lie,
Or sounds more still than silence fill the space
Beneath that far infinity of sky;
And softly shines the evening star on one
Whose day lies spent, a chronicle of things
undone.
Even regret, in this calm air and mild,
Bears little of its wonted anguish deep:
One long drawn breath of sorrow, as the
child
Preludes a sad, sweet sinking into siwo.
Then peace, JKght registers defeet again;
L.utT’uac was I, that I should struggle and
attain?
—Mary CMornc-Ved, in the Atlantic.
All’s Well That Ends Well,
feY UKI.ES FORREST CRAVES.
“Old folks will fee old folks, ” skid
Myra MaQtbh, “and the best plan is to
let ’em have their own way.”
“Oh, yes, I know,” said Leona, clasp
ing her hands. “But that did Leghorn
hat, with the crown like a stove-pipe and
the front like ft wash-hands basin! Who
cOuld. tderate that? And everybodv
when she conies into church.”
“Let ’em laugh,” shrewdly remarked
Myra. “I’d be willing folks should
laugh at me if I was worth thirty thousand
dollars and owned the Bliven Mills int*>
the bargain.”
Myra Manton was “hired help” at the
Bliven Farm—-a stout New Englander of
lifty summers, with hair cut short, no
visible waist, and snapping black eyes.
Leona was old Mrs. Blivcn’s niece—a
slim girl of eighteen, with a balsam-pink
complexion, dreamy gray eyes, and teeth
white and even as small pearls.
In the eyes of James Bliven, the old
lady's son, Leona was fairest of all created
beings. Even Myra Manton allowed
“that she was sorter nice to look at!” As
for Mrs. Bliven herself, she expressed no
opinion whatever; Mrs. Bliven was not a
person who talked much.
“She’s come to make me a visit,” said
Mrs. Bliven one day to Myra. “I sup
pose, if she suits me, I shall ask her to
stay for good and all.”
“If you don’t, I suppose Jim will,”
said Myra, with a shrewd twinkle of her
eyes.
“As it happens, I’m the mistress of
this house,” said Mrs. Bliven. “Well,
we’ll see how she suits.”
And neither Myra the solid, nor Leona
the sylphlike, knew, as they sat on the
sunshiny doorstep, slicing great, red
hearted peaches to dry for winter use,
that Mrs. Bliven, from the garret wincjpw
above, where she was looking over her
balls of carpet-rags, could distinctly hear
every word they uttered,
“Myra,” said Leona, as she replenished
her pan from the great bushel basket,
“I’m going to tell you something.”
“Tell ahead!” succinctly retorted
Myra,
“I’ve got such an ideal”
SWhat is it?”
“Well, Onh of my schoolmates at Han
over Hall had a grandmother. And her
grandmother ha 1 just such a Noah’s Ark
of a bOnnet as AUnt Bliven;”
“itumph!” said Myra, peeliug dili
gently away.
1 ‘And she arid her sister took a pair of
big shears and snipped it up into little
bits and made tlie grandmother believe
that the rats did it.”
“Must have been a credulous old cree
tUr," observed Myra.
“Oh, no; but it was really such a neat
job. Don’t you think, Myra, we might
dispose of the old Leghorn hat in some
such way?”
“No, I dou t!” said Myra, spearing a
peach on the end of her knife and begin
ning artistically to remove its pink-velvet
jacket.
Leona sighed, and went on with her
work. Myra Manton paused to call her
frolicsome little terrier off from a brood
of half-grown turkey poults who were
foraging around the barn door.
“I do wish,” she said, curtly, “that
Cappen John Jackson hadn’t sent me that
plaguey beast to take care on till he come
back from that voyage to Fayal. If he
hurts any of the fowls, I expect Mrs.
Bliven’lt murder me.”
“Myra, ’ said Leona, “are you really
on gaged to Captain John Jackson?”
“Get out! ’ said Myra, with a sheepish
smile. “I dunno whether Ibe or not.”
The next day Leona came into her
aunt’s room with a pretty black-and
white straw bonnet, trimmed with a jet
dagger and loops innumerable of black
ribbon,
“Look, Aunt Bliven!” said she.
“M hat s that? said the old woman,
turning her spectacle glasses full on the
girl,
“I’ve been trimming a bonnet for
you.”
“You might have saved yourself the
trouble,” sharply spoke the matron.
“But don’t you like it?” pleaded
Leona, who was beginning to tremble all
over.
“It’s very nice, I dare say, but I’m
very well suited already with what I’ve
got.”
“But. Aunt Bliven—”
1 ‘ ’Tain't worth while to discuss the
matter,” said Mrs. Bliven, drily. “I
calculate I’m old enough to choose for
myself what I'll wear and what I won’t!”
Leona shrank into herself like the
leaves of a sensitive plant; she crept
back to her bedroom with the rejected
triumph of home made millinery, and
had a good cry over it.
Presently she heard her aunt calling:
■Myra! Myra!” -
SJie ran out.
“Oh. Aunt. Bliveo. I had forgotten to
tell you. Myra had a telegram from her
sister up at .Portland, and she had to run
to catch the 10 o;ldck train. Her sis
ters has. had. an accident, and 1
promised her I’d explain it to you. She’ll
be back as soon, fij they possibly can
spare hbr, and I’m to do the housework
while she is gone.”
Old Mrs. Bliven sniffed discontentedly.
“Seems to me people are always havin’
accidents,” said she. “However, you
may go and pick some Lima beans and
sweet com, and we’ll have a dish of good,
old fashioned succotash. Myra is a, good
cook, but she never could make succo
tash. And in the afternoon we’ll have
Toby harnessed up and drive over to
Widow Sally Smith's to tee. ”
The long shadows of afternoon were
lying athwart the closely mown grass
when old Toby was led to the dttor, and
Mrs. Bliven called loudly to Leona to
bring down hfer bonnet and shawl.
The girl, who had no especial fancy
for the society of Widow Sally Smith
and her hard voiced daughters, listlessly
obeyed.
Biit the moment she opened the “best
bedroom” door, where the Old l&dy kept
her choicest treasures, She uttered a shriek
of dismay. There, On the floor, ih a se
ries Of jagged strips and indistinguish
able debris, lay Mrs. Blivens’s famous
Leghorn bonnet!
“HOhdness me!” qried a Shrill Voice,
11 whit’s the matter?”
And Leona became conscious that old
Mrs. Bliven had toiled heavily up the
stairs, and stood close beside her, peering
over her shoulder. Her face grew black
as night.
“Oh, Aunt Bliven,” gasped Leona,
“how could this have happened?”
“I see through it all, plain enough,”
said Mrs. Bliven. “You needn’t trouble
to tell any lies about it, Leona Parish 1 I
heard what you and Myra were talking
about yesterday morniug—about the old
lady and the bonnet that was snipped to
pieces and the blame laid on rats. It’s a
very smart, ingenious plan, I don’t
doubt; but somehow it don’t suit me to
have such very smart, ingenious folks
about my premises. So, if you please*
I’ll dispense with the rest of your visit.
The horse and wagon are at the door,
and little Peter will drive you to the de
pot as soon as ever you’ve packed your
trunk.”
* ‘But, Aunt Bliven, I never—”
I ‘l told you I’d have no more false
hoods,” sternly interrupted the old lady,
“I don’t know what sort of Consciences
you girls have, in this age of the world.
Be silent, I say, and obey me,”
And thus, in all the bitterness of un
merited disgrace, Leona was turned out
of the house, that was beginning to bs
unspeakably dear to her.
James Bliven, when he came home,
was thunderstruck.
“Mother, for heaven’s sake,” cried he,
* * tvVlAf. ic tTlis2 Thu nr|i*l hoa nn ntono fn
go to.”
“Let her go back to the boarding
school she came from!” said Mrs. Bliven,
sternly. “I’ll have no double-dealers in
this house!”
“I’ll go after her and bring her back.”
“You’ll do as you choose,” said the
old woman; “but if Leona’s the girl I
take her to be, she won’t come with
you,”
A sudden wave of despair swept over
James’s soul as he recognized the truth of
these words.
“Mother,” he cried, “you’ll forgive
her! YOu’ll send for her to return—for
niy sake, mother?”
But Mrs. llliveu shook her head.
“No girl that isn’t frank-hearted and
true; can have a home here!” she reiter
ated.
Yet, in spite of all this, the house
seemed strangely desolately without Le
ona’s light step and winning smile.
Late at night there was a loud knock
ing at the door. It was Myra Mauton,
come l ack.
“Things is all right,” Said she. They
was frightened more than they was hurt.
Absalom Atkins always whs a coward,
and I ain’t goin’ to spend any more o’ my
time foolin' with ’em; so I’ve comeback.
Was you surprised when you seen Waggy
was gone? The dog,” in answer to Mrs.
Bliven’s puzzled look, “that Cappen
Jackson left in my charge. When I seen
the mischief he’d done, I jest ketched
him up and left him to Cappen’s sister's
Mary Ann Jackson, at the cross-roads,
and afterward it occurred to me you
might miss him and worry for fear he was
lost.”
“I never once thought of the dog,”
said Mrs. Bliven, impatiently.
“And the bonnet?” said Myra. “I’m
powerfully sorry, but-—”
“The bonnet!” said Mrs. Bliven.
“What do you mean, Myra? What are
you talking about?”
“You don’t tell me you never diskiv
ered it?” cried Myra, bursting into a
laugh. “Well, Ido declare, What did
you s’pose done it?”
“Done what?”
“Why, worried that 'ere Leghorn hat
o’ your’n into ribbons! It was Waggv,
that’s who it was! Pups is always mis
chievous, and I think he’s the worst I
ever seen. I meant to told Deacon Ship
man’s boy, that helped me to tote my
satchel to the daypo, to explain it t’ ye,
but we was pretty nigh bein’ left, and
flurry and fluster driv it all outen my
head.”
“Mrs. Bliven stared at Myra.
“It was the dog, after all, then,” said
she.
“La me, who else did ye suspect?”
cried Myra. “Where’s Leona? I fetched
home some o’ them puce-colored poppy
seeds and a slip o’ rose geranium for her,
’caused I knowed—Goodness, what’s the
matter with you, eh? What are you
looking at me that way for?”
By the very earliest morning train
James Bliven went after Leona, with a
letter from his mother imploring her to
return to the farm:
“I’m an old woman." wrote Mrs. bliven
“but I ain't too old to own when I’ve been in
the wrong. Come back, and I'll guarantee
you and me won’t have any more quarrels."
Leona came back, and when once again
she crossed the threshol; she was James’s
promised wife.
“Mother will be pleased at the engage,
ment as I am myself,” said the young
man, rapturously.
And Myra’s kind eyes shone a cordial
welcome, am} Mrs. Bliven herself came
; to meet Leona, wearing the simple straw
! Donnetwith the jet dagger and the black
ribbon bow ,
“It’s dreadful becoming,” said she,
with a complacent glance at the looking
glass, “and hereafter I mean to get you
to trim all my hats for me, Leona.”—
Saturday Night.
The Seven Bibles.
The seven Bibles of the world arc the
Koran of the Mahomedans, the Tfi Pit
ikes of the Buddhists, the Five Kings of
the Chinese, the Three Vedas of the
Hindoos, the Zendavesta, and the Scrip
tures of the Christians,
The Koran is the most recent of the
five, dating from about the seventh cen
tury after Christ. It is a compdilnd of
quotations from both the did and Hew
Testaments, and from the Talmud. The
Tri Pitike3 contain sublime morals and
{lure aspirations. Their ailthor lived
and died in the sixth fcentury before
Christ.
The sacred writings of the Chinese
are tailed the Five King?, the word
“kings” meaning web of clOth. From
this it is presumed that they were origin
ally written on five rolls'of cloth. They
contain wise savings from, the sages on
the dptics of life, but they cannot be
traced further back than., the eleventh
century before our era. The Vedas are
the most ancient books in the language
of the Hindoos, but they do not, accord
ing to late commentators, antedate the
twelfth before the Christian era.
The Zendavesta of the Persians, nexi
to our Bible, is reckoned among schol
ars as being the greatest and most
learned of the sacred writings. Zoroas
ter, whose sayings it contains, lived and
worked in the twelfth century before
Christ. Moses lived and wrote the Pen
tateuch 1500 years before the birth of
the meek and lowly Jesus; therefore, that
portion of our Bibie is at least 8000
years older than the most ancient of oth
er sacred writings.
The Eddas, a semi-sacred work of the
Scandinavians, Was first given to the
world ill the fourteenth Century, A. D.
High Observation Towers.
The English speculators who have pro
posed building an observation tower in
London double the height of the Eiffel
•tower in Paris, and similar to it in plan,
referred the matter to M. Salles, the as
sistant of M, Eiffel, for an opinion as to
the practicability of the scheme. M.
Salles is popularly supposed to have been
the active engineer of the Eiffel structure.
He has condemned the English idea—
very probably being biased by his connec
tion with the Paris tower, which would
lose its prestige if a higher rival should
be erected. His argument, as reported,
is this: That we arc ignorant of the
force of the wind at varying high eleva
tions, and that there would be difficulty
iu transporting material above 1000 feet.
“As t j the first point,” says the Engi
titering and Mining Journal , “the argu
ment is weak. It is mainly a question of
leverage, not of absolute wind power,
As to the second point, that of transport
of material, reference to what is being
done every day in deep mining would
show that there would be no difficulty.
The whole thing is simply a matter of
business. If the passenger tolls would
pay interest, riinning expenses, and prof
its on the enormous original outlay, the
tower can be built. Engineering nowa
days is ready to face almost any difficul
ties when a profit can be shown,”
Down Where the Fires Rage,
Professor Jones answers (in an English
newspaper) the question raised as to
whether the tapping and drilling of the
earth for oil that is going on in America
is dangerous or not—that is to say, likely
to let oiit the internal flies of the earth
to play havoc with the surface fat and
near. He compares the earth to a bal
loon floated and kept distended by the
gas in the interior, which, if exhausted,
will cause the crust to collapse, affect
the motion of the earth in its orbit,
erase it to lose its place among the
heavenly bodies and fall in pieces. An
other writer thinks that drilling should
be prohibited by stringent laws. The
scientist says an immense cavity exists,
and that here the gas is stored; that a
mile below tlie bottom of tlie cavity is a
mass of roaring, seething flame which is
gradually eating into the rock floor of
the cavern and thinning it. Eventually
the flames will reach the gas and a terrific
explosion will ensue. The simile of the
earth being like a balloon is not very
solid. Why not weigh the earth and
settle the question of solidity? The
scientist can weigh the sun and moon;
the figures are long, but the result
is worth the trouble.— San Francieco
Argonaut.
The Forger’s Pen.
I was talking with a Treasury official
on the subject of forgery. “Did it ever
occur to you,” said the official, “that a
forger lias half his work done when he
can get hold of the identical pen with
which the owner of the signature habit
ually writes? A great many men, bank
Presidents and the like, use the same
pen for their names only for a year or two
without change. A pen that has been
used by a man in writing his name hun
dreds of times, and never used for any
thing else, will almost write the name of
itself. It gets imbued with the spirit of
the signature. In the hands of a fairly
good forger it will preserve the character
istics of the original. The reason for
this is that the point of the pen has been
ground down in a peculiar way, from
being used always by the same hand and
for the same combination of letters. It
would splutter if held at a wrong angle
or forced on lines against its will. It
almost guides the sensitive hand of the
forger when he attempts to write the
name.”— Pall Mall Gazette.
The Coldest Spot and Coldest Day.
The coldest region in the United
States is the stretch of country on the
northern border from the Minnesota
lakes to the western lipe of Dakota. At
Pembina, which lies pear the forty
ninth parallel, the lowest temperature
recorded in the great storm of the winter
of 1573 was fifty-six degrees below zero.
This is believed to be the lowest temper
ature reached in the United States.—*
i Francm) Examiner,
CURIOUS FACTS. ,
Good divers get from $lO to S2O i
day. ,
I A Monticello (Fla.) pear tree is in
bloom for the third time this year.
A largo copperhead snake found its
way through a Columbia(Penn.) hydrant
Ten cents was the reward given a Pott*,
town (Penn.) man who found a stray
S3OOO team and spent an hour in finding
the owner.
Somebody who believes in old-fash
ioned methods Of discipline recently sent
a young lady teacher in Maine a bundle
of shingles.
The Protestant Episcopal Church has
in the HfcbraSkh Deanery 1650 Indian
communicants, with nihe Dakota Indians
in hbly Orders.
A dog at Greenwood Lake, da., is
twenty-one years old, and has killed in
his life Ovfer sixty rattlesnakes. He has
been bit.ten by them four times, uud still
lives:
B. F. Barker, of Laurens County, (Ja.,
lias a bOy five months old. At four
months, and ten days he had two teeth
and weighed twenty-seven pounds and
could sit alone.
An eagle that measured eight feet with
its wings spread out was shot the other
day at Rutledge, Ga. The bird was sit
ting on a pine tree looking at a eix
raonth’s-old baby.
While out walking with his mother at
Canton, Mass., a little son of Charles
Summer was attacked by a large gray
squirrel, which ran up his clothes and
severely bit and scratched his face.
A census of farm animals has recently
been taken, by the Italian Government,
and it appears that there is a very ' \rge
increase in all kinds excepting pigs,
Which have diminished considerably in
numbers.
When Washington became President,
in 1789, the country contained less than
four millions of people. The single
State of New York has a larger popula
tion to-day than the whole country in
Washington's time.
The vein of ore in the Treadwell mine,
Alaska, is 464 feet wide, and extends
along the mountain three-quarters of a
mile. The mine produces SIOO,OOO in
gold bullion monthly, about forty per
cent, of which is profit.
Farmers in the vicinity of Anderson,
Ind., are excited over the appearance of
a gang of young wolves in their wood
lots. A number of sheep and chickens
have been killed. A big hunting party
has been organized to kill off the growl
#rs.
Dr. Alonzo Garcelon, of Lewiston,
Me., recently, remarked that he was
treating a member of a family in that
city which he has professionally attended
for five generations—great-great-grand
father, great-grandfather, grandfather,
father and children.
AV. E. Miller, of Mt. Pleasant, Penn.,
has iu possession a copy of the Boston
Gillette, dated Monday, March 12, 1770,
published by Eddes and Gill, containing
an account of the first four coffins manu
factured in the United States by persons
who made this a business.
In the steeple of the Congregational
Church at Bingham, Me., there hangs an
ancient bell that has been swing in various
belfries 100 years or more. On its outer
surface is stamped “Revere, Boston,”
Boston,” and it is supposed to have been
made by Paul Revere, who, after the
peace of 1783, eastablished a foundry in
Boston, where he cast the first cannon and
bells manufactured in Massachusetts.
The old bell has a good tone, and seems
likely to last another century.
For a month past the people iu the
eastern part of McLean County, 111.,
have been terrorized by a strange wild
animal, which they thought to be a
panther. The animal killed a large num
ber of calves, pigs and sheep, and would
attack large animals. It was of a fero
cious nature, and the fanners were great
ly alarmed at its presence. They or
ganized hunting parties, and after several
chases succeeded in killing it. Its skin
was presented to the Wesleyau Universi
ty Museum, and the animal proves o
have been a Canadian lynx. It was of a
dark brown color and weighed about one
hundred pounds.
Egyptian Corn.
Iu raising Egyptian corn, A. J. Allen,
of Warnek, Dak., on the Milwaukee
Road, claims to have had success this
season. He said: “I saw a statement in
a newspaper last season about corn hav
ing been brought from Egypt by a cer
tain explorer, and wrote to him for some.
He responded, sending me seven kernels,
which, he informed me, he had taken
from an underground tomb near the bank
of the Nile, and they were, like Mark
Twain’s mummy, 3000 years old. He
made no charge for them, and thinking,
as I do yet, that he found them as he
said. I cultivated them with care and in
terest. Each kernel produced three
stalks, and on each stalk grew an ear
about eight inches long and two or three
inches in diameter. The ears are well filled
with kernels about the size .of popcorn.
The stalks attained the size of our Indian
corn, and were soft and nice for foddei,
even when the grain ripened. I think a
great deal of the seed, and shall sow it
next year on a good-sized patch. ’— Chi
cago Herald.
Utilizing Worthless Materials.
Not the least hopeful of the signs oi
the times is the tendency to use mate
rials once thrown aside as worthless. Cot
tonseed oil was once without value. Blag,
formerly mere rubbish, is made into
beautiful oinameuts for the table an
mantelpiece, and some varieties have been
utilized as a manure or in road making
Anthracite coal was long in proving it-'
claim to be a serviceable fuel. Coal dust
js tordav used in “filling in places wher?
mining "has been carried on with succ
vigor at to endanger l)OUs.s and streets
The probabilities are that each year wil
press into service something that ha:
hitheito beeD overlooked. It is not likely
that man knows the full worth of every
thing in nature’s storehouse,